Lead DevOps Engineer - Trading Platforms

About the role

A Lead DevOps Engineer is sought to support infrastructure automation, cloud platform engineering and operational resilience for mission-critical Front Office Trading systems. The role focuses on reliable software delivery, scalable infrastructure and the availability and performance of financial trading platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Design and enhance cloud infrastructure and DevOps automation
• Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform
• Manage container-based environments with Docker and Kubernetes
• Support cloud infrastructure across AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Improve reliability, high availability, monitoring and disaster recovery
• Implement observability across logging, metrics, tracing and alerting
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis and production engineering
• Strengthen security, IAM and secrets management
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation and FinOps initiatives
• Collaborate with global engineering, architecture and SRE teams

Required profile

• 10+ years of relevant DevOps, cloud or platform engineering experience
• Experience with front office trading platforms
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, architecture and SRE teams

Required skills

• Hands-on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
• CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance
• Cloud networking, IAM, security and secrets management
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog or Splunk
• High availability, disaster recovery, incident management and cloud cost optimisation